ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a system of computer code in which all values are given eight digit binary values (max 256 possible values). The first 32 values are for different operational functions such as Escape, Backspace, Carriage Return. The next 96 make up all the characters you have on your keyboard. The first 128 values comprise what is called the standard ASCII character set. The last 128 values (extended ASCII character set) are characters such as ¥, ó, ½. AUTOEXEC.BAT A user-configurable text file, in the MS-DOS operating system, that is used to set system variables and load TSRs. During the bootup process in MS-DOS, the command interpreter is loaded into memory and takes over the system. It then locates and executes the command lines in AUTOEXEC.BAT before loading the DOS promp.
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